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Will Internet Explorer 9 change the way we surf the web with its use of the GPU? Rob Enderle thinks it will.

IE6 became the dominant browser worldwide early last decade but unfortunately Microsoft took their eyes off the ball resulting in a raft of surprisingly good challengers. IE7 was OK but disappointing and IE8 moved back to challenge for leadership again. Now IE9 is looking like a whole different kind of beast. Although browsers have traditionally leveraged the CPU and system RAM, IE9 supposedly leverages the GPU (graphics processing unit) and promises to provide a significant performance improvement as a result.

This is why, for this cycle, NVIDIA has suddenly become a huge advocate for ie9. This is a big shift for browsers and where the market leader goes, the others will likely follow. This could be the biggest change for the web since the introduction of the web browser.

I'll stick with a browser that eats my processor, not my gpu thank you very much.

A GPU can do what the CPU can do but do it more efficiently (e.g. more performance for the same power consumption) depending on the workload. Having the rendering engine utilize the GPU is definitely a step forward.

Although I hate how Microsoft is using their proprietary DirectX technology instead of an open standard its not a surprise.

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